title: [Pituitary apoplexy. A review].
abstract: Pituitary apoplexy constitutes a syndrome that is characterized by the ischemic infarction or hemorrhage into a pituitary tumour. Clinically the patient develops sudden headache, meningismus, visual disturbances, even blindness, and occasionally decrease in level of consciousness. To diagnose it is basic to perform a cerebral MRI. Treatment consists in urgent sellar decompression by transsphenoidal surgery and substitute therapy with steroids.
authors.affiliation: Sección de Cirugía Hipofisaria del Servicio de Neurocirugía, Hospital Clínico Universitario, Santiago de Compostela.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Serramito-García
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: García-Allut
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Arcos-Algaba
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Castro-Bouzas
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Santín-Amo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gelabert-González
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010899:Pituitary Apoplexy / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy; D011379:Prognosis; D013577:Syndrome